by Rabbi Sender Haber | Apr 19, 2015
We read Pirkei Avos between Pesech and Shavuos because it prepares us to properly accept the Torah. This is the period when the students of Rabi Akiva perished because they did not have proper respect for one another. Apparently, it is possible for a person to possess...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Apr 19, 2015
At the very end of my second Seder, my wife rose to count Sefirah and took a moment to explain how we are counting our way to Shavuos and growing each day of the forty nine days ahead of us. Everyone at the table counted, but one woman was puzzled. “I enjoyed this...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Mar 29, 2015
Introduction Do we need to read the Hagada and tell the story ourselves, or is ok if the head of the seder does it and we listen? There are two components here. One is the Mitzvah of והגדת לבנך that we have to tell the story to our children. The second is the Mitzvah...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Mar 11, 2015
The Talmud in Nedarim tells us that Moshe was strong. He spread the covering over the Mishkan. The Gemara challenges this proof. Maybe Moshe was just large? What is the proof that he was strong? Instead the Gemara brings a proof from the Luchos which Moshe carried...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Jan 28, 2015
Several weeks ago we were saved by coming down to Egypt. In this week’s Parsha we finally leave. At the Yam Suf Hashem promised that we would not see the Egyptians again. In Parshas Shoftim Hashem ruled that a king should not have too many horses because they would...
